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Darling St. Balmain c1888. State Library of NSW
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Balmain, New South Wales
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
Balmain is located on the Balmain peninsula in Port Jackson adjacent to the suburbs of Rozelle to the west and Birchgrove to the east. It is situated next to Iron Cove on the northern side and White Bay on the southern side Prior to white settlement, the area was inhabited by the Indigenous Eora peoples. Stories from early settlers in the area tell of how the local indigenous people used to hunt kangaroo by driving them though the bushy peninsula, down the hill to Peacock Point at the East end, where they were killed. The area now known as Balmain was part of a 550 acre (2.2 km²) grant to colonial surgeon Dr William Balmain (1762-1803) made in 1800 by Govenor John Hunter. The land was first settled in 1836 and by 1861 had been divided into the well populated eastern suburb of Balmain and the sparsely populated western area, extending to the gates of Callan Park, known as Balmain West. The peninsula changed rapidly during the 1800s and became one of the premier industrial centres of Sydney. Industries clustered around Mort Bay included shipbuilding, a metal foundry, engineering, boilermaking and a dry dock completed in 1855.